Slabs On The Blue 21May21

I checked the flows @ Williams Fk and Blue River below Green Mtn Rez - Williams Fk was a dangerously low 23cfs so off to Jurassic Pk I went. Nice partially cloudy day and 60° with low 80cfs flow. Only two other cars there on arrival! Back up... on the drive out I contemplated another possible weak outing on this section - it seemed that last year, both in spring & fall, I caught just two weakish cutbows and mostly smallish browns - I said to myself if it happens again then I will reduce my outings here. I felt a bit luckier though when I found Haine left me the cool Tres Litros gaiter I'd chosen (which I attempted to put in his bag). I was wrong to doubt this tailwater. Even the hellish decent to the river is now rope-aided. I had one of my best days ever in Jurassic Pk. Perhaps it is the recovering economy and resultant fewer fishermen; perhaps it is the day; perhaps it was me - I caught a number of ~14" browns like those shown, especially on mayfly nymphs and emergers; the big brown I spied, I could not move. But all was forgiven when, during a modest BWO emergence, I was able to land two total fat slabs of cutbow from the same run; they were very thick & strong and both over 20". One grabbed the black ice weight and the other larger 21+" bit on Destiny's Child. The Blue felt redeemed and I acknowledge. Both fights were 5+ minutes and on the first fight I did swim when stumbling on a submerged big rock. Still, with such a fish on here, and the fact that I didn't bust my RF Cutty 4 wt, I shook myself off and fired again - to catch something bigger. GR8 day on the Blue.

 

Summit Co is so cool - a week of fresh tracks @ ABay, awesome gumbo with Kala, laps of Whale's Tail with Brown, many chores completed (Vols, garage floor, spa, IoT batteries, tube rolling 300Bs & measuring NestT, etc.) and slabs on the Blue - is even topped with ORB in your backyard for celebration... collaboration with New Image, Sticky, is excellent, as was Slushy (a DDH DIPA), as is Crystaline (DDH hazy west coast).